Google Local MCP Server

Find local businesses on Google: name, address, phone, hours, ratings, and photos.

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What is the Google Local MCP server?

Google Local MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Google Local directly instead of describing what you should do. Find local businesses on Google: name, address, phone, hours, ratings, and photos.

What you get

This is a remote MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP client query Google Local directly as a tool call.

  • "Find all coffee shops within 2 miles of downtown Austin with 4+ star ratings"
  • "Get me the contact details for orthodontists in San Francisco"
  • "Find boutique law firms in Boston specializing in IP"

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the google local mcp server does with a few real requests.

Choosing this one

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by johnisanerd; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Google Local's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

How to install the Google Local MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-local": {
      "url": "https://apify.com/johnvc/google-local-api/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Google Local to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Google Local directly.